February 22nd, 2026 - 06:55 GMT
ALBAWABA - John Kiriakou, an American journalist and whistleblower, said that a former CIA officer told him that U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to launch an attack on Iran on Monday or Tuesday. Kiriakou said that his friend, who is a CIA officer, was at the White House on Friday morning and told him, "A decision has been made to attack Iran on Monday or Tuesday." He continued that ...
![Jimmy Carter was the last U.S. president to visit Iran, back before the Islamic revolution in 1979 and the subsequent hostage crisis. [Reuters]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/obama.jpg?itok=c07XRTM4 "Jimmy Carter was the last U.S. president to visit Iran, back before the Islamic revolution in 1979 and the subsequent hostage crisis. [Reuters]")
![Iranian President Hassan Rouhani [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/452727127.jpg?itok=MhoHAMA6 "Iranian President Hassan Rouhani [Getty Images]")
![Iran's Deputy FM Abbas Araqchi told reporters that "we are in no way optimistic about [the West world powers]-we are pessimistic- and we have told them that we cannot trust you" (Courtesy of Press TV)](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/araqchi.jpg?itok=hpBlqYLT "Iran's Deputy FM Abbas Araqchi told reporters that \"we are in no way optimistic about [the West world powers]-we are pessimistic- and we have told them that we cannot trust you\" (Courtesy of Press TV)")
![Rouhani insists that Iran's nuclear program will only be used for peaceful energy production. [presstv]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/rouhani-redline.jpg?itok=JZLy23uV "Rouhani insists that Iran's nuclear program will only be used for peaceful energy production. [presstv]")
![Iranians gathering amid rubble in the Iranian western city of Borazjan, on November 28, 2013, after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck the country. [Mohammad Salehinia/AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/452372217.jpg?itok=VR2mpifh "Iranians gathering amid rubble in the Iranian western city of Borazjan, on November 28, 2013, after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck the country. [Mohammad Salehinia/AFP]")
![Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi waits ahead of the Board of Governors meeting at the UN atomic agency headquarters in Vienna on November 28, 2013. [Alexander Klien/AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/452338737.jpg?itok=nLz3NYEL "Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi waits ahead of the Board of Governors meeting at the UN atomic agency headquarters in Vienna on November 28, 2013. [Alexander Klien/AFP]")
![Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/143660567.jpg?itok=eRDxqLg1 "Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt [AFP]")
![Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on November 27, 2013. [Atta Kenare/AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/000_Nic6269769.jpg?itok=X86BKnPM "Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on November 27, 2013. [Atta Kenare/AFP]")
![US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech during a press conference at the CICG (Centre International de Conferences Geneve) after talks over Iran's nuclear programme in Geneva on November 24, 2013. [AFP/Alexander Klein]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/000_Hkg9224331.jpg?itok=-ufczldB "US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech during a press conference at the CICG (Centre International de Conferences Geneve) after talks over Iran's nuclear programme in Geneva on November 24, 2013. [AFP/Alexander Klein]")
![Members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Syria. [presstv.ir]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/shamsara20130817042224960.jpg?itok=JFKQOSqd "Members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Syria. [presstv.ir]")
